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From: burdick@hpspdra.HP.COM (Matt Burdick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: HP 9000/700s not running Domain/OS
Message-ID: <13730011@hpspdra.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 91 16:38:41 GMT
References: <9104011930.AA04990@hera.wri.com>
Organization: HP Stanford Park - Palo Alto, CA
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> I too am beginning to feel unwanted.  Why didn't HP port Domain/OS?
> If their answer is because OSF/1 will do everything Domain/OS does,
> then I would like to see our third party software running on it
> (Mentor, Intermetrics, uniplex, Esof, AutoCad, etc).  Also, if OSF/1
> is the answer to everything, then why is HP-UX running on the 700?
> Are they better than we are?

I'm sure that this sort of software will become available on the OSF
OS - with HP, DEC, IBM, etc all supporting it, I think that the
companies who produce these will see real benefits to an OSF port.

As to why HP-UX runs on the s700 while Domain/OS doesn't - I assume
it's because HP-UX already runs on the s800 and is a relatively
trivial port to the s700 architecture.

							-matt
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